FTT-MA: A flexible time-triggered middleware architecture for time sensitive, resource-aware AmI systems

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 6229-6253

  Noguero, Adrián ^a   Calvo, Isidro ^b   Pérez, Federico ^b   Almeida, Luis ^c  

^a TECNALIA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Ambient intelligence; Cyber physical systems (CPS); Distributed systems; Middleware architectures; Real time systems; Reconfiguration; Ubiquitous computing

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS (CPS); DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE ARCHITECTURE; RECONFIGURATION;

ARCHITECTURE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; HEALTH CARE; MIDDLEWARE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84878031975     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s130506229     Document Type: Article

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